Colonel Warren A. Robinson
(1899 – 1994), Commanding Officer, 314th Infantry
Regiment in 1944 and 1945
With his dashing Errol Flynn
mustache, Colonel Robinson personified the lead
from the front ideal earning the Combat Infantryman
Badge and Silver Star in Normandy. Capturing the
French port of Cherbourg was vital to the Allies
sustaining the Normandy invasion. The 314th was
in the lead taking the heavily Fortified Fort
du Roule which was the key to Cherbourg set high
above of the cliffs of the Port.
Colonel Robinson’s son, Brick
Robinson - himself a Korean War Veteran -chuckled,
“Dad was a little too lead from the front, which
is how he got that Purple Heart at Cherbourg.”
(For more about the 314th and, Cherbourg and Fort
du Roule click: here)
Living historian Stephen Cargile’s
portrayal of Colonel Robinson has been described
as “he just doesn’t portray Colonel Robinson,
he channels him, so 1944 it’s eerie.” Stephen
will be part of Allied Victory Day where you will
see him and Colonel Chipper Lewis, Commanding
Officer of Today’s 314th Infantry Regiment, when
we honor the families of the Fallen who fell from
WW II through 2009, including the families of
the Commanding Officer of 3-314th of Today’s 314th
Lt. Col. Leon James and his Master Sgt. Tulsa
T. Tuliau who fell in Iraq.
